Many marked a note for posterity in the face of the doom that trench warfare a few dozen miles away would bring to many. [...] those in Naours "would be one of the highest concentrations of inscriptions on the Western Front" that stretch...

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Four people were killed and more than 20 wounded by a suicide bomb attack on security checkpoint east of the Libyan city of Misrata, a local official news agency reported on Sunday.

In the Khalife workshop, in the southern coastal village of Sarafand, four men stand beside an oven, fixed in concentration despite the oppressive temperature. Blowing through a long tube, one of the group carefully shapes white-hot melt...

Around 2,000 people have been evacuated from the Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus after the Islamic State group seized large parts of it, a Palestinian official told AFP Sunday. "Around 400 families, approximately 2,000 people...

Christians in Kenya have been turning to armed guards to protect their churches during Easter Sunday services, following the massacre at Garissa University College carried out by al-Shabab that left nearly 150 people dead.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - At least four people were killed and more than 20 wounded by a suicide bomb attack on a security checkpoint east of the Libyan city of Misrata, a local official news agency reported on Sunday.

Christians in the Holy Land and across the world are celebrating Easter, commemorating the day followers believe Jesus was resurrected in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago. Catholics and others are celebrating Easter whereas Orthodox Christians,...

Pope Francis condemned indifference and “complicit silence” to jihadist attacks on Christians as he presided over Easter ceremonies in the wake of a massacre of nearly 150 people at a Kenyan university by Shebab Islamists.

The European Union seems to hate American tech companies. A lot. Just today, there's been a whole range of stories on this theme: Europe is getting ready to throw the book at Google, which could end up with a $6 billion fine . Uber issue...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Syrian government and some opposition figures will start a second round of talks in Moscow on Monday focusing on humanitarian issues, although a broader agreement is unlikely as Syria's main opposition group contin...

Worldcrunch.com / CAIXINMEDIA BEIJING — The relationship between man and nature is increasingly fused with a new ethical consideration. Wild animals for instance are no longer viewed simply as a useful resource for humans to ...

Grieving Christians prayed, sang and clapped hands at an Easter Sunday service at a Catholic church in Garissa, a Kenyan town where Islamic extremists killed 148 people in an attack on a school. … Click to Continue »

T. Mayer, Carnegie On the one hand, this relatively small country at the heart of the continent presents itself as very ambitious. For example, the government in Vienna initially opposed opening EU accession negotiations with Turkey in 2...

NEW YORK - Two women accused in New York City's latest homegrown terrorism case may be part of what some experts say is an evolving threat - a greater willingness among women to shed blood in the name of militant Islamic jihad.

Daniel Maschi is ready to Stand With Rand. "Rand Paul is independent, the only Republican speaking against the establishment about ideas that will actually grow the party," said Maschi, 21, of Perkasie, a senior majoring in pol...

Sierra Leone's eastern district of Kailahun, once a hotbed of Ebola, has recorded its first case in nearly four months, threatening progress made to stamp out the disease, officials said Saturday. A 9-month-old boy tested positive for Eb...

A European regulator found "issues'' with Germany's aviation authority in a regular review of air safety enforcement, the European Union's executive body said Saturday. Its statement did not say when the review was carried out, but The W...

Hundreds of people calling for Indiana to add protections for gays and lesbians to the state's civil-rights laws marched through downtown Indianapolis Saturday, attracting the attention basketball fans attending the NCAA Final Four.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Mormon leaders vowed to be a leading advocate for the belief that marriage is an institution exclusive to a man and a woman during the religion's biannual conference Saturday that also included two rare events.

Carla Harris launches the 2015 Conference on Diversity in International Affairs with a keynote address following a welcome message by James M. Lindsay, Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Council o...

The Wisconsin Badgers stunned previously undefeated Kentucky 71-64 in a tense Final Four triumph on Saturday to advance to the U.S. collegiate national championship game against Duke. "Best birthday present I've ever had,'' said a celebr...

Malaysia's jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was granted a furlough Sunday to attend his father's funeral, soon after he began a five-year prison sentence on sodomy charges that he says are politically motivated. … Click to Co...

The University of South Carolina has suspended a student for writing a racial slur on a study room whiteboard and will investigate the student for code of conduct violations, according to the school's president.

SALT LAKE CITY - Mormon leaders vowed to be a leading advocate for the belief that marriage is an institution exclusive to a man and a woman during their biannual conference Saturday that also included two rare events.

Charles Onyango-Obbo, NY Times NAIROBI, Kenya  Kenya is reeling from the shock of the massacre, early on Thursday, of 147 people in an attack by Somali militants on a college. At least four Shabab gunmen stormed Garissa University Colle...

Experts examine both traditional pathways in higher education as well as less traditional routes for students to learn about and prepare for careers in public and foreign policy as part of the 2015 Conference on Diversity in Internationa...

Experts discuss China’s political reforms under President Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party’s relationship with political and religious dissidents in Xinjiang, Tibet, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and the implications for stabil...

A Kuwaiti lawyer says the country's supreme court has upheld a verdict against an online journalist sentenced to two years in prison for Twitter posts deemed insulting to the Gulf nation's ruler. … Click to Continue »

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's chief of staff and a former ambassador to the United States, who was also a senior member of Najib's party, were among six people killed in a helicopter crash near the capital, officials said on Sun...

FRANKLIN, Ind. (AP) - Nicole Richards was winding down a special day when, on a freezing winter's night in 2000, her young life took a dramatic turn. She was a senior at Perry Meridian High School and one of the state's top high school g...

MADISON, Wis. -- In the frantic, desperate minutes after John Wilkes Booth fired a fatal shot into the president's head 150 years ago, an unconscious Abraham Lincoln was carried across the street from Ford's Theater to a rooming house. D...

Not everyone with grey hair is elderly, and not all elderly people have grey hair. Lately, apparently, younger people, including British Royal Kate Middleton, are embracing the grey-hair look - or more people are going grey early. Which ...

NEW YORK (AP) " Facebook and its founder must release documents and electronic correspondence to a defense lawyer whose client has fled from criminal charges that he falsely claimed a majority ownership in the social media giant,...

Around 24,000 people from the Philippines were being evacuated Saturday with Typhoon Maysak a day away from potentially striking the country's northeast coast, officials said. Storm surges, flash floods and landslides remained potential ...

Not everyone with grey hair is elderly, and not all elderly people have grey hair. Lately, apparently, younger people, including British Royal Kate Middleton, are embracing the grey-hair look - or more people are going grey early. Which ...

Islamist gunmen who massacred sleeping students in Kenya's Garissa university knew what they were doing: they picked a soft target put further at risk by crippling corruption and mismanaged security, analysts say. The killing on Thursday...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) " The writer, a thin young man who fears the growing interweaving of religion and politics in Bangladesh, knows his turn could come next. What happened earlier this week, when the second secularist blogger in...

PORTSMOUTH, Virginia (AP) " In good condition with no signs of sunburn, dehydration or other ailments, a man reported missing at sea two months ago was rescued on the overturned hull of his sailboat off North Carolina's coast and...

A young Bolivian covered in fake blood was hoist up on a cross under the crisp Andean sun, while an inmate in Mexico City played the role of Jesus as faithful across the Americas re-enacted the final hours of Jesus' life on Good Friday.H...

Brazilian police fired tear gas Friday to break up a protest in a Rio de Janeiro slum that erupted after a 10-year-old boy was killed in what officers called a shootout with drug traffickers. Some 300 residents of the Complexo do Alemao,...

Newly shaven-headed and clad in white mourning robes the grieving parents of the victims of last year's Sewol ferry disaster began a marathon march Saturday to press for an independent inquiry into the tragedy. More than 200 people are p...

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) " In Iraq's Tikrit, liberation from the Islamic State group comes at a heavy price, both in loss of life and in the sheer devastation the militants leave in their wake.Much of Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown...

Two bombs exploded in Cairo's residential Imbaba district on Saturday, causing no casualties, Egypt's state-run Al Ahram newspaper said on its website. The post Two bomb blasts in Cairo appeared first on InCyprus .

High in the mountains along the Afghan border, Pakistan's fight against Taliban militants is focusing on their last, fearsome redoubt -- the notorious Tirah Valley, home to renegades and rebels for centuries. The military has mounted a s...

Indian street food delights like gol gappas, aloo tikki, litti chokha, puri sabzi, gulab jamun, will make their presence felt at the World Street Food Congress in Singapore, which begins on April 8. ...

President Barack Obama and Cuban counterpart Raul Castro will have an "interaction" when they attend next week's Summit of the Americas in Panama, a U.S. official said Friday. It will be the first between the two leaders since the histor...

The Pope led Catholics in prayer for persecuted Christians around the world at a Good Friday service in Rome, a day after 148 students and security officers were massacred by Shebab Islamists in Kenya. A small group of believers carried ...

The city of Ferguson, Missouri, responding to Freedom of Information requests, has released the full contents of racist emails circulated by the chief court clerk and two police supervisors that were disclosed by the Justice Department i...

President Barack Obama ventured into Red America on Thursday and Friday to sell his economic agenda to small but polite audiences, and along the way he tried to demonstrate that both he and his ideas could travel anywhere in the country,...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) " A man who spent nearly 30 years on Alabama's death row walked free two days after prosecutors acknowledged that the only evidence they had against him couldn't prove he committed the crime.Ray Hinton was...

The site looms up from the Iranian desert like something out of a thriller novel, ringed by anti-aircraft batteries, a security perimeter two miles around and huge tunnels that lead deep into the mountainous complex.

PESHAWAR, April 5, 2015: Authorities said a man in Pakistan, angered by a rejected marriage proposal to his cousin, has killed 10 members of his extended family after years earlier killing four others over it. Police officer Shahid Khan ...

The search for body parts after last month's Germanwings A320 crash in the French Alps is over, officials announced Saturday. But it is not certain that all the bodies of the 150 victims will be returned to their families. Read More...

GARISSA, April 5, 2015: After al-Shabaab gunmen massacred nearly 150 people at a Kenyan university on Thursday, singling out Christians for point-blank executions, churches in Kenya are turning to armed guards to protect their Easter Sun...

The leader of Turkmenistan on Sunday pledged to streamline water use, a huge problem in the isolated desert nation believed to be among the world's top water wasters. Some 80 per cent of ex-Soviet Turkmenistan is covered by the Karakum d...

Nicola Sturgeon, was said to have told the French ambassador to Britain in February that she would rather see Cameron remain in power over Labour leader Ed Miliband, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported.

MOSCOW, April 4. /TASS/. The Defence Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) has registered 16 violations of the ceasefire regime on Saturday by Kiev’s military. "For four times they were firing from mortars, gren...

Two aircraft of Russian Emergencies Ministry delivered more than 60 metric tons of humanitarian cargo to Vanuatu. There were food products, including sugar and canned milk, meat and fish, as well as mobile power stations, tents, blankets...

America’s Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX) was at one point designed to become "the most powerful radar of its kind in the world", but ended up as a $2.2 billion flop; together with three other unworkable programs launched by the country’s M...

PUTRAJAYA: The Transport Ministry has set up an investigation team to probe the ill-fated AS365 N2 Eurocopter Dauphin which crashed in Semenyih, Selangor on Saturday killing the late Tan Sri Dr Jamaluddin Jarjis and five others on board.

Two rival groups have set up booths next to each other in Central to promote their views on whether a new law should be drafted making it illegal to insult a police officer. The Alliance in Support of Our Police Force says over the past ...

Somali press freedom advocates lashed out at Somalia government officials on Saturday after news 25 staff members at two radio stations were arrested over their coverage of the Garissa, Kenya, massacre on Thursday. Read More...

Yemen's Houthi militiamen, supported by army units, gained ground in the southern city of Aden on Sunday, pushing back loyalists of the Saudi-backed President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Residents took refuge in their homes and reported hear...

To support Myanmar's nationwide ceasefire deal, a military representative in Parliament, Brigadier General Tint Hsan submitted an urgent proposal calling for the participation of the whole nation in the peace process

Lifeguards at Shing Mun Valley Swimming Pool have taken collective sick leave to protest against a lack of manpower, forcing the pool to close for the day. There were meant to be seven lifeguards on duty, but there was only one at work. ...

An International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has slammed conditions faced by migrant workers building Abu Dhabi's $27-billion Saadiyat Island cultural hub, set to feature new branches of the Louvre and the Guggenheim museums. Read F...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A man in northwest Pakistan gunned down his former fiancee and nine of her relatives Sunday, police said, six months after murdering his own parents and two brothers for refusing to pay his dowry. The 25-year-old susp...

Turkey's Fenerbahce football team called Sunday for the suspension of the national league championship in response to an armed attack on its team bus as players returned from a match. "We consider that as long as this attack is not solve...

Around 1,500 people gathered at Jerusalem’s Garden Tomb at sunrise on Sunday to celebrate Easter when Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead after being crucified. On a sunny but chilly morning, crowds of Christians from all o...

Yemeni Shiite rebels captured the provincial government headquarters in Aden on Sunday, pushing into new areas of the battleground southern city despite a Saudi-led air campaign, a local official said. The rebel forces advanced during th...

KANGAR: Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Abdul Wahid Omar said he was in utter shock upon learning on the tragic death of Datuk Azlin Alias as he had just spoken to the latter two hours before the Semenyih helicopte...

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has adopted a new foreign policy formula, which calls for peaceful and cooperative relations with Pakistan in fighting terrorism, local media reported on Saturday

At least a hundred hillfires have broken out across Hong Kong, as crowds of people burnt offerings and swept their ancestors' graves for the Ching Ming Festival. One fire on Lau Fau Shan was upgraded to a Number 3 alarm early in the afte...

Three officials of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy's 2012 election campaign have been charged in relation to alleged attempts to dodge finance limits. Judges said that their investigation had finished. Read More...

The Japanese government is pleading with the head of Okinawa Province to allow the construction of a US air base. Takeshi Onaga says he understands the importance of the alliance with Washington, but the plan must have the support of the...

PESHAWAR, (Pakistan): Authorities say a man in Pakistan, angered by a rejected marriage proposal to his cousin, has killed 10 members of his extended family after years earlier killing four others over it.

DHAKA: Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia left her office Sunday for the first time in three months in a sign of easing tensions after deadly protests had plunged the country into a political crisis. Zia, 69, was taken by car to a ...

Militants shelled the largest city in restive northern Mali on Sunday, killing a civilian and wounding three relatives as they slept, hospital and security sources told AFP. A police official in Gao said the deadly rocket strike hit a ho...

MANILA: Hundreds of people in the north of the main Philippine island of Luzon left evacuation centres and returned home on Sunday after a typhoon weakened significantly as it made landfall, although officials still warned of heavy rain ...

Myanma Insurance, the state-owned insurance company, has announced the completion of rules and regulations for foreign firms to operate in special economic zones, adding that foreign companies will be required to pay a US$30,000 licence fee